Download or read book China on the Eve of the Olympics written by United States House of Representatives and published by . This book was released on 2019-09-11 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: China on the eve of the Olympics: hearing before the Committee on Foreign Affairs, House of Representatives, One Hundred Tenth Congress, second session, July 23, 2008.
Download or read book China on the Eve of the Olympics written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Owning the Olympics written by Monroe Price and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2008-02-22 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A major contribution to the study of global events in times of global media. Owning the Olympics tests the possibilities and limits of the concept of 'media events' by analyzing the mega-event of the information age: the Beijing Olympics. . . . A good read from cover to cover." —Guobin Yang, Associate Professor, Asian/Middle Eastern Cultures & Sociology, Barnard College, Columbia University From the moment they were announced, the Beijing Games were a major media event and the focus of intense scrutiny and speculation. In contrast to earlier such events, however, the Beijing Games are also unfolding in a newly volatile global media environment that is no longer monopolized by broadcast media. The dramatic expansion of media outlets and the growth of mobile communications technology have changed the nature of media events, making it significantly more difficult to regulate them or control their meaning. This volatility is reflected in the multiple, well-publicized controversies characterizing the run-up to Beijing 2008. According to many Western commentators, the People's Republic of China seized the Olympics as an opportunity to reinvent itself as the "New China"---a global leader in economics, technology, and environmental issues, with an improving human-rights record. But China's maneuverings have also been hotly contested by diverse global voices, including prominent human-rights advocates, all seeking to displace the official story of the Games. Bringing together a distinguished group of scholars from Chinese studies, human rights, media studies, law, and other fields, Owning the Olympics reveals how multiple entities---including the Chinese Communist Party itself---seek to influence and control the narratives through which the Beijing Games will be understood. digitalculturebooks is an imprint of the University of Michigan Press and the Scholarly Publishing Office of the University of Michigan Library dedicated to publishing innovative and accessible work exploring new media and their impact on society, culture, and scholarly communication. Visit the website at www.digitalculture.org.
Download or read book China on the Eve of the Olympics written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Beijing s Games written by Susan Brownell and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2008 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why is hosting the Olympic Games so important to China? What is the significance of a quintessential symbol of Western civilization taking place in the heart of the Far East? Will the Olympics change China, or will China change the Olympics? Susan Brownell sets the historical and cultural contexts for the 2008 Beijing Olympics Games by placing it within the context of China's hundred-year engagement with the Olympic movement to illuminate what the Games mean to China and what the Beijing Olympic Games will mean for China's relationship with the outside world. Brownell's deeply informed analysis ranges from nineteenth-century orientalism to Cold War politics and post-Cold War "China bashing." Drawing on her more than two decades of engagement in Chinese sports, the author presents evocative stories and first-person accounts to paint a human picture of the passion that many Chinese people feel for the Olympic Games. It will also be essential reading for journalists and sports enthusiasts who want to understand the fascinating story behind the Beijing Olympics.
Download or read book China and the Olympics written by Chinese Olympic Committee and published by . This book was released on with total page 103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Inside the Beijing Olympics written by Jeff Ruffolo and published by eBookIt.com. This book was released on 2012-08-01 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the only American in the senior management team of the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympic Games, Jeff Ruffolo takes you behind the scenes and into a world no one has ever before witnessed. This remarkable, first-person account of the Beijing Summer Olympic Games is a riveting narrative taking you inside the greatest Olympics ever! This true story recounts the author's effort to perfect the broadcasting of NCAA Volleyball on the fledgling Internet and commercial radio stations throughout the Western USA and how he parlayed that experience into becoming America's voice of Olympic Volleyball at the 1996 Atlanta, 2000 Sydney and 2004 Athens Summer Olympics and then finally securing a position with the Beijing Olympic Organizing Committee. Follow the author as he maneuvers alone through unchartered and perilous waters in The People's Republic of China to become the Senior Expert of the Beijing Olympic Organizing Committee and the personal challenges he faced as the 2008 Beijing Olympic Media Center managed one global media crisis after another. Be captivated by this fascinating tale of political intrigue, mystery and magic as you too will be transported ... Inside the Beijing Olympics.
Download or read book Owning the Olympics written by and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "From the moment they were announced, the Beijing Games were a major media event and the focus of intense scrutiny and speculation. In contrast to earlier such events, however, the Beijing Games are also unfolding in a newly volatile global media environment that is no longer monopolized by broadcast media. The dramatic expansion of media outlets and the growth of mobile communications technology have changed the nature of media events, making it significantly more difficult to regulate them or control their meaning. This volatility is reflected in the multiple, well-publicized controversies characterizing the run-up to Beijing 2008. According to many Western commentators, the People's Republic of China seized the Olympics as an opportunity to reinvent itself as the "New China"--A global leader in economics, technology, and environmental issues, with an improving human-rights record. But China's maneuverings have also been hotly contested by diverse global voices, including prominent human-rights advocates, all seeking to displace the official story of the Games. Bringing together a distinguished group of scholars from Chinese studies, human rights, media studies, law, and other fields, Owning the Olympics reveals how multiple entities-including the Chinese Communist Party itself-seek to influence and control the narratives through which the Beijing Games will be understood"--Publisher's description.
Download or read book Olympic Dreams written by Guoqi XU and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-30 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Already the world has seen the political, economic, and cultural significance of hosting the 2008 Olympics in Beijing—in policies instituted and altered, positions softened, projects undertaken. But will the Olympics make a lasting difference? This book approaches questions about the nature and future of China through the lens of sports—particularly as sports finds its utmost international expression in the Olympics.
Download or read book China and the Olympics written by and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Marrow of the Nation written by Andrew D. Morris and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2004-09-13 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher Description
Download or read book China and the Olympics written by Zhongguo Ao wei hui. Xin wen wei yuan hui and published by . This book was released on 19?? with total page 103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book House Hearing 110th Congress written by U. S. Government Printing Office (Gpo) and published by BiblioGov. This book was released on 2013-10 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The United States Government Printing Office (GPO) was created in June 1860, and is an agency of the U.S. federal government based in Washington D.C. The office prints documents produced by and for the federal government, including Congress, the Supreme Court, the Executive Office of the President and other executive departments, and independent agencies. A hearing is a meeting of the Senate, House, joint or certain Government committee that is open to the public so that they can listen in on the opinions of the legislation. Hearings can also be held to explore certain topics or a current issue. It typically takes between two months up to two years to be published. This is one of those hearings.
Download or read book The Beijing Olympics Promoting China written by Kevin Caffrey and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-13 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Beijing 2008 Olympic ceremonies were spectacular performances and technological accomplishments by the People’s Republic of China. However, the audience in Beijing was only the most overt element of a global audience receiving the message of the Games. For this global audience, the Beijing performances were a harbinger of wider regional and international ambitions; a message of intent that pointed to a larger Chinese plan to a degree not seen since the Ming dynasty. New Chinese ambitions embrace both soft power and hard power. The actor in this political drama of international scope is the Chinese state and its political ambitions on the world stage. The Beijing Olympics can be seen as its opening act, and the audience as global. Rather than the kind of "morality" play that is typically used in China to educate the people in politics, this new production – a production on many levels – was one aimed at audiences all around the world, and one that was a calculated expression of realpolitik. This book was previously published as a special issue of the International Journal of the History of Sport.
Download or read book China s return to the Olympic Family written by Chinese Olympic Committee and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This document of the Chinese Olympic Committee retraces the history of China's involvement within the Olympic Movement from it's withdrawal until it's return.
Download or read book When the Party Ends written by Shing Huei Peh and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book China Readies for Its Close up written by Linn Weiss and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the eve of China's 2008 Summer Olympic Games, the country is now fast-tracking its preparations for an expected 10,500 athletes and two million visitors. But global headlines cite China's unsafe product exports, regional corruption, and an eco-crisis from coal-fired plants and rising carbon-dioxide levels. Beijing's pollution in spring 2007 was the worst in seven years. Can the city clean up quickly for the gathering of the world's best athletes in summer 2008? On a more mundane but vital point will Beijing's notorious squat-toilets be replaced in time with spiffed-up public restrooms? More generally, what will foreign visitors find in China this summer? Where will they go? Stay? Dine? How will foreign visitors handle the large crowds? The Mandarin-only signage? And if they venture to Tibet, what about the high-altitude sickness that can accompany visits there? For nearly a month in 2007, author Linn Weiss visited Tibet, China's classic cities (Beijing, Chengdu, Guilin, Shanghai, Suzhou and Xi'an), and Hong Kong/Macao all favored destinations for the 2008 tourist assault. His travel commentator's aim: To observe " China on the eve" of its playing Olympics host then compile day-to-day personal surprises and challenges and, most usefully, key tips for travelers venturing there. What follows in this lively, humorous traveler's memoir is part-insider reportage (the author's daughter recently attended Beijing Film Academy on a scholarship grant, with interesting Chinese-film-industry contacts and insights). It's also regular visitor reportage (the author's small group crisscrossed China several times on an exciting journey involving various "special access" permissions). "All of China is one massive construction site right now," Amanda Weiss repeatedly warned her author/father as he made final trip preparations. "When you visit, be careful where you step!" Heading to China, author Linn Weiss wanted to see exactly how the Beijing Olympics were being wrought, and what foreign visitors will likely encounter when they arrive. Through their 5,000 years of history, the Chinese have been noted for their massive feats of engineering. But the full glare of global media scrutiny is less than a half-year away. Challenges and obstacles remain. Will China be ready at the Summer Games to face the cameras? The 2008 Olympics are soon approaching. Under the klieg lights of world attention, China is readying for its close-up. The whole world is watching. More than anything, the Olympics spirit extols human dignity in sports competition. Will China take this opportunity to prove that it truly has advanced as far as it claims? China Readies For Its Close-Up provides page-after-page of provocative daily insights, intriguing travel tips and evocative landscapes for would-be visitors with more than 100 beautiful color photo images of a vibrant China and its indomitable people now undergoing major transition.
